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Losing weight is about being in a calorie deficit. If you are in a deficit all week, but overdo on the weekends, you can wipe out all your hard work. Weigh (with a scale), measure, and log all your food. If you're not doing that, you can easily underestimate what you are eating and drinking.

Seeing improvements in 6 weeks is possible, but maybe not the ones you want to see. Because you are close to goal, your weight loss will be slow. Water weight will come off fast, but not fat. Lifting will make a difference in body composition, but you probably will only see minimal results in 6 weeks.

I would eat as healthy as possible, exercise several days a week, buy some new clothes that you look awesome in and then go have fun on your holiday.

I have set my MFP goal to loose 0.5lbs a week and it has set me with 1300 calories to eat, would you advise that I stick to this?

I just need to stick to exercising, I dont for the most part find healthy eating difficult its finding the energy to go to the gym!

Thank you for your answers. :happy:

To the bold: yes, stick to that. MFP's calorie goals are pretty good for the most part. With that goal though, if you workout, make sure you eat back at least half of you exercise calories.

I find following a program gives me a boost to go to the gym. New Rules of Lifting For Women and Stronglifts are both great programs for toning your body. They both give you exercises to do, how many reps, and how many sets so it's easy to walk in and do what you have to do without trying to come up with your own program. Note: when you start weight lifting, you may see a gain on the scale because your muscles will retain some water to repair themselves. Also, with weight lifting you won't lose per the scale really fast, but you'll see your body change and will lose inches. I highly suggest taking body measurements prior to starting to workout and taking them every 2-4 weeks to see how you're progressing.

I have set my MFP goal to loose 0.5lbs a week and it has set me with 1300 calories to eat, would you advise that I stick to this?

I just need to stick to exercising, I dont for the most part find healthy eating difficult its finding the energy to go to the gym!

Thank you for your answers. :happy:

To the bold: yes, stick to that. MFP's calorie goals are pretty good for the most part. With that goal though, if you workout, make sure you eat back at least half of you exercise calories.

I find following a program gives me a boost to go to the gym. New Rules of Lifting For Women and Stronglifts are both great programs for toning your body. They both give you exercises to do, how many reps, and how many sets so it's easy to walk in and do what you have to do without trying to come up with your own program. Note: when you start weight lifting, you may see a gain on the scale because your muscles will retain some water to repair themselves. Also, with weight lifting you won't lose per the scale really fast, but you'll see your body change and will lose inches. I highly suggest taking body measurements prior to starting to workout and taking them every 2-4 weeks to see how you're progressing.

Thanks!

Where is the best place to take measurements? I looked up online and found loads of different answers as to how far up your legs ect to measure or should I just pick a spot on say my arm and continually measure that spot?

Pick a place and consistently measure at that place. When you start taking measurements, it doesn't really matter where you take measurements (IMO). The important thing is to make sure you measure at the same place going forward.